Thursday, June 4, 2015

Canada:

Geoscience BC Announces Commencement of 2015 TREK Field Program (News Release)

Geoscience BC is pleased to announce the commencement of the 2015 TREK field program. TREK, short for Targeting Resources through Exploration and Knowledge, is a multidisciplinary project that includes geophysics, geochemistry, geology and geothermal research. The TREK project focuses on BC's Interior Plateau region, and hopes to encourage mineral exploration in what is presently an underexplored area of the province due to complicated and poorly understood geology and overburden.

In 2013, an airborne magnetic survey was flown and proprietary industry data was incorporated into the larger magnetic dataset. Additionally, the till geochemical survey and basal till potential mapping commenced in 2013 and sampling continued through summer 2014. Reanalysis of archived till samples from the TREK project area has also been undertaken, with the most recent reanalyzed results released last week. The reanalysis not only updates sample results to current-day analytical standards, it also interprets the genesis of each archived till sample, allowing the user to reduce variability within their till datasets for more robust regional assessments.

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